(ANSA) - Palermo, April 11 - A photo that featured in an app
for journalists accredited to next month's G7 summit in Taormina
that allegedly gave a stereotypical image of Sicily has been
removed after complaints, an MEP for the centre-left Democratic
Party (PD) said on Tuesday.
The photo was of a young man wearing a cap with a cigarette
handing out of his mouth staring at a woman with a parasol.
PD MEP Michela Giuffrida said the photo played on a "false,
old, ignorant" stereotype of the southern region.
"Now we may have the usual story of excuses and
justifications that perhaps will cost the person who created
this campaign their job as reactions of indignation multiply,"
Giuffrida added.
"But the damage to the land that was awarded the G7 is done
and it is very serious".
G7 app photo withdrawn
Image showed man in cap staring at woman with parasol